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Spring is here and insects are coming into their own. Hadn't seen many until the last couple of days. Here in the pretty Chinese Garden on top of Miraflores' cliffs yellow Wedelia has attracted this wonderful metallic green Bee. I'm not entirely sure but think it's an Augochloropsis kind.
It's always a joy to see Peacock Pansies glide over Creeping Oxeye here in the KLCC Park. About ten years ago I posted a picture of a Junonia that I'd seen in Mangsit on Lombok, Indonesia (www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/12381064935/in/photoli...). To that photo I added a longish description focusing on the 'Junonia'. But I still don't know the derivation of 'almana', a species name given this Junonia by great Carolus Linnaeus.
A weed which is very hard to eliminate from farmland.
Flowers and leaves of the creeping oxeye plant!
A flower of the creeping oxeye plant!
San Juan Capistrano, California 2016
Yesterday I posted a photo of a Huge Carpenter Bee, today of one of the smallest. Here's a Ceratina collusor, which I've dubbed 'Playful' in English. It's really astounding how great a load of pollen these tiny creatures can carry. And imagine how much 'instinct' must go into how those pollen grains are distributed to give a good flight balance. Here our Bee is on a flower of Creeping Oxeye, a Wedelia of sorts. Note the red 'tongue' darting out for pollen.
Sphagneticola trilobata, commonly known as the Bay Biscayne creeping-oxeye, Singapore daisy, creeping-oxeye, trailing daisy and wedelia, is a plant in the Heliantheae tribe of the Asteraceae family. It is native to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, but now grows throughout the Neotropics.
A very colourful plant photographed in Antigua.
It is of the genus Wedelia, quite possibly Wedelia calycina, which has the local name of piss-a-bed. It was placed in the beds of children to prevent bed-wetting. The rough leaves caused itching, making the child wake and thus allowing it the opportunity to relieve itself.
Wedelia belong to the Asteraceae family and are sometimes referred to as Creeping Ox-eye or Sunflower.
Sphagneticola trilobata
Commonly known as the Bay Biscayne creeping-oxeye, Singapore daisy, creeping-oxeye, trailing daisy and wedelia.
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Singapore daisy
Scientific Name: Sphagneticola trilobata
A mat-forming groundcover, or occasionally a low-climbing plant, with hairy stems. Its paired leaves are often three-lobed and have toothed margins. These leaves are glossy in appearance and mostly hairless. Its bright yellow daisy-like 'flowers' (20-30 mm across) are borne singly on stalks 3-15 cm longeach flower has 8-13 yellowish 'petals' (6-15 mm long) with finely toothed tips.
Common names: Also known as: Singapore daisy, Bay Biscayne creeping-oxeye, creeping daisy, creeping ox eye, creeping wedelia, rabbit's paw, Singapore daisy, trailing daisy, wedelia, yellow dots, creeping daisy, creeping ox eye, yellow dots, creeping wedelia, wedelia, rabbit's paw , trailing daisy.
Flowering time: Year Round
Exotic (weed in Sandy Camp Road Wetlands)
Origin; Native to Mexico, Central America (i.e. Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama), the Caribbean and tropical South America (i.e. French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru).
Habitat: A weed of urban bushland, closed forests, forest margins, open woodlands, waterways, lake margins, wetlands, roadsides, disturbed sites, waste areas, vacant lots, and coastal sand dunes in tropical and sub-tropical regions. It may also encroach into lawns, footpaths and parks from nearby gardens.
(Source: weeds.brisbane.qld.gov.au/weeds/singapore-daisy)
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